Tree Quotes
4223 quotes by 2276 authors
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Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works. What is my…
— Phineas Quimby
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The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy spring. No sooner…
— Kobayashi Issa
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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and…
— Alfred de Musset
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That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ætherial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in…
— Alexander Pope
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Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of…
— Emma Lazarus
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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came…
— Walt Whitman
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Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind oÂ’er thy sickly brow, when…
— Robert Montgomery
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A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around…
— Robert Montgomery
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To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have…
— Lucy Larcom
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I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they…
— Heinrich Heine
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,…
— Edward Abbey
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Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy…
— Ernest Dowson
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You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.
— Wilhelm II
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'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
— William Shakespeare
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The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
— Thomas Jefferson
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